Oberweningen
Oberweningen in Wehntal
Oberweningen is a municipality in the district of Dielsdorf the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
Coat of arms
Blazon
About the origin of the emblem there is no record, first detected it is only 1860. Suspected taking over the coat of arms of the Knights of Mandach who owned land in Oberweningen, or a creation as " speaking " coat of arms of locally based family bog. The community meeting certain the subject on 18 November 1928 the official coat of arms.
Geography
Oberweningen located in Wehntal in Zurich lowlands. The municipality borders on Schleinikon, Schöfflisdorf, Boppelsen, Bach, Rain Mountain, Sünikon and Siglistorf AG. From the community area are 35.4% agriculture, forest covers 55.6 % and 9 % of municipal and traffic.
The municipality also includes the Wattwiler courtyards, which are accessible by a road from Siglistorf.
Population
December 31, 2008 1601 inhabitants were registered in the municipality Oberweningen.
The community Oberweningen provides jobs for nearly two hundred working end of the area. For employers include crafts and vegetables.
Family name from Oberweningen: Surber, Zöbeli, Duttweiler.
Policy
The SVP has 42.8 %, the SP 17.2%, FDP 14.0%, Green 8.1%, the CVP 4.1%, and the EPP 2.2% of the vote.
Mayor Walter Surber (as of 2013).
History
By about 1800 BC: The first inhabitants probably lived at the end of the Stone Age in the area of Oberweningen. In the forest on the Egg grave mounds were found. In the grave goods itself Corded Ware pots were.
6th century: The on -ingen names ending indicates a founded towards the end of the Great Migration of the Alamanni settlement. The leader should have been called Vano and probably first established Niederweningen. A second settlement was then called Oberweningen.
1291 First mention on 25 May of Oberweningen in a parchment letter of the Barons of rain mountain. With the letter, the sale of a farm at the monastery of St. Blaise is sealed. The parchment letter is still preserved today in the Swiss National Museum.
1409 came Oberweningen with the rest Wehntal under the rule of the city of Zurich.
1524 joined the then population as the other Zurich Unterländer over to the Reformed faith.
1554 opening of the first restaurant in Chlupf.
In the spring of 1798 Napoleon's troops marched in the context of the Napoleonic Wars. During the Second Battle of Zurich, there were also larger rallies troops in Wehntal. It was followed until 1802 chaos of war.
1843, the road was extended to Zurich. At the suggestion of the pastor of Schöfflisdorf the road was not built as originally intended by Sünikon along the warehouses after Schleinikon but by Schöfflisdorf and Oberweningen to Niederweningen. A year earlier, drove the first mail coach on the route Zurich - Dielsdorf- Niederweningen by Oberweningen. In the restaurant in Chlupf a post office was established.
1891, the railway line from Dielsdorf was opened to Niederweningen.
1895 first phone in the restaurant Chlupf.
1990 Opening of the Zurich S-Bahn. In the following years, began a rapid population growth. There are built several quarters with single and multi- family homes. The influence of the Zurich city has become noticeably stronger.
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
Oberweningen is located on the Wehntal (upper Glatt Niederweningen ), the lines of the S5 ( Pfäffikon SZ- Zurich HB- Niederweningen ) and S55 (upper Glatt Niederweningen ) of the S -Bahn Zurich is busy. The trains run every hour of the S5, the S55 is the day one second compound per hours ago. The station is located in the municipality Schöfflisdorf and wears the double name Schöfflisdorf - Oberweningen.
The CRVO bus route 555 connects the station Schöfflisdorf - Oberweningen with stops Hüeblistrasse, Rossstall and Kronenweg in Oberweningen and unlocks the neighboring community Schleinikon.
The main road 17 from Zurich to Doettingen performs Oberweningen and called on the municipality Wehntalerstrasse.